Andrea Ranocchia had a season to forget in 2011-12, but, as Antonio Labbate argues, the Inter defender has the tools to re-emerge as a star of the future.

Andrea Ranocchia always wanted to be a great defender. “There was more than one poster of Alessandro Nesta on my bedroom wall,” the Inter man stated as he reminisced about his childhood past. “I’ve always had a great amount of admiration for him.”